On 12/26/2012 12:57 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I run a bunch of home Gentoo systems most of which use mdadm, > currently version 3.1.4. I do not currently use initramfs's on any of > these systems but figure it's time for me to crawl out of my dark ages > swamp and try to become more enlightened. > > QUESTION: Is there an significant risk that a normal Gentoo system > of the stable variety (I.e. - not ~amd64) would encounter any problems > booting if mdadm-3.1.4 was rebuilt using the static flag? If it > matters most of my RAIDs are metadata-0.9. One is 1.2. I can't answer the question off the top, but I thought I'd point out that you probably don't need static for use with an initramfs. Because I run stable amd64 on one of my gentoo servers, and don't have 'static' set for mdadm. I use dracut with mdraid and lvm use flags to build my initramfs images. Rootfs is in LVM which is on MD raid10. > If I did encounter a problem and couldn't boot is there a way to recover? > > Please note, I'm not asking right now about using mdadm from within > an initramfs. I'm only trying to ensure that if I rebuild mdadm with > the static flag the current system is still likely to boot OK. >From my understanding of how linking works, I'd say it *can't* hurt. > Folks on the Gentoo list say they didn't have any problems > switching, but they switched a long, long time ago so I'm just trying > to be extra sure. HTH, Phil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
